The Federal Government Just Acknowledged the Harm Its Dams Have Caused Tribes. Here’s What It Left Out. ( www.propublica.org )
Syphilis Is Killing Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading. ( www.propublica.org )
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets ( www.propublica.org )
Ten Years After the Flint Water Crisis, Distrust and Anger Linger ( www.propublica.org )
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The Gospel of Matthew Trewhella: How a Militant Anti-Abortion Activist Is Influencing Republican Politics ( www.propublica.org )
More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach Children ( www.propublica.org )
Conservatives Go to War — Against Each Other — Over School Vouchers ( www.propublica.org )
U.N. Has Flown More Than $2.9 Billion in Cash to Afghanistan Since the Taliban Seized Power, Diverting U.S. Funds ( www.propublica.org )
Staff Warned About the Lack of Psychiatric Care at a VA Clinic. They Couldn’t Prevent Tragedy. ( www.propublica.org )
From the outside, it looked like a haven for heroes: a state-of-the-art building with a gleaming atrium, a large American flag flying out front. But the clinic hadn’t had a full-time, on-site psychiatrist in five years. A single nurse was responsible for connecting hundreds of veterans, some with serious mental illness or...
Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets ( www.propublica.org )
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“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates ( www.propublica.org )
When Railroad Workers Get Hurt on the Job, Some Supervisors Go to Extremes to Keep It Quiet ( www.propublica.org )
As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better ( www.propublica.org )
Australia has emerged as a global leader in the effort to lower the number of babies that die before taking their first breaths. It’s an approach that could benefit America, which lags behind other wealthy nations in reducing stillbirths....
“Everyone Will Die in Prison”: How Louisiana’s Plan to Lock People Up Longer Imperils Its Sickest Inmates ( www.propublica.org )
21 Bodycam Videos Caught the NYPD Wrongly Arresting Black Kids on Halloween. Why Can’t the Public See the Footage? ( www.propublica.org )
ProPublica editor-at-large Eric Umansky started investigating police oversight after an NYPD officer hit a teenager with a car in 2019. In the years since, he’s learned how police departments have undermined the promise of body-worn cameras.
He Was Convicted of Killing His Baby. The DA’s Office Says He’s Innocent, but That Might Not Be Enough. ( www.propublica.org )
Words of Conviction (Pt 2): They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars. ( www.propublica.org )
This is Pt 2/2 of the series. You can find Pt 1 here....
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax ( www.propublica.org )
Republicans Hatched a Secret Assault on the Voting Rights Act in Washington State ( www.propublica.org )
Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage ( www.propublica.org )
Texas Is the Largest GOP Stronghold Without Pro-School Voucher Legislation. Gov. Abbott Is on a Crusade to Change That. ( www.propublica.org )
The Rising Cost of the Oil Industry’s Slow Death | Unplugged oil and gas wells accelerate climate change, threaten public health and risk hitting taxpayers’ pocketbooks. ( www.propublica.org )
How Google uses secrecy, market dominance, and connections to rule tech (Pt 2): How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World ( www.propublica.org )
This is Part 2 of an award-winning series exploring how Google wields market power, technological dominance and political influence to amass and conceal information in service of profits — often in violation of its stated rules, government procedures and international sanctions. Click here for earlier parts, or to discuss the...
What Idaho’s Republican Primary Tells Us About America’s Culture Wars ( www.propublica.org )
North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code ( www.propublica.org )
